[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

Sun Sep 19 16:14:24 CEST 2010

2010/9/19 Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com>:
+> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:44:50AM -0400, SinnerBOFH wrote:
+>> On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Maurice <maurice at bcs.org.uk> wrote:
+>>
+>> >> Mailing lists are a good start, but we need to get a Web Forum
+>> >> up and running as soon as possible.
+>> >
+>> >  Yes, that would be a good move, but personally I would prefer a
+>> > newsgroup (simply because it's more convenient), if that were
+>> > possible.
+>> >
+>> Hi Maurice,
+>>
+>> I love USENET, been on it since mid 90's. But it's dying and new Linux users do not know that it even exists.
+>>
+>> Today web forum is the only way Mageia will be noticed.
+>>
+>> Sad but true.
+>
+> But one thing doesn't have to exclude the other, does it? Even though
+> having NNTP groups may not be very visible, I would be happy having them.
+> Perhaps even some gatewaying can be done not just between the mailing list
+> and the newsgroups, but perhaps even to the forum boards?
+>
+> Besides... despite what the popular opinion might be, you don't have to be
+> a rocket scientist to be on usenet! Many newsgroups have actually improved
+> in quality in recent years in my opinion.
+>
+> Kind regards,
+>
+> Remco
+>
+
+Although it's true what you say about usenet (I remember a very good
+time on oulm (was that correct?)) and I loved reading lots of groups
+with Emacs-Gnus, today the webforums are the way to go in userland as
+mailinglists are the preferred plattforms in devland.
+
+I think the main goal should be to keep everything as centralized as
+possible. Announcements (to the users and the public) must be in the
+same place as user discussions and support. Gates from one to another
+platform are there but they are also sources of missing mails/postings
+or inconsistent discussion threads.
+
+The chaotic way of news publishing at Mandriva (sometimes even hidden
+in blogs), discussions of the same topic taking place in several
+plattforms (see MUGs forum and mailing list) was a nightmare, let's
+not repeat the mistake.
+
+wobo
+